My goal for 2014 is to improve my swimming and biking, and complete the Double Mussel and REV3 Poconos 70.3 races. I'm in the process of moving from Rochester to Albany, and am looking forward to making some new friends!

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Race report: YMCA Indoor Triathlon Feb. 3

Well, I’m still in training, and I’m sure that Sunday’s
indoor triathlon will seem like nothing after I've battled open water swims, people
kicking in my face, messy transitions and hills.

But I’ll revel in my glory until then.

Sunday was the indoor tri at the Y. Hopefully there will be
some good pictures up soon, they took so many!

Results
are here. You covered as much distance as you could in 15 minutes. I did
12.5 laps in the pool, 4.5 minutes on the spin bike and 1.7 miles on the track.

I feel like I killed it on the swim and run. I feel like I
kind of got shafted on the bike – the resistance was pre-set and I felt like
mine was really high, I couldn't get above 80 RPMs, where the person next to me
was flying. It’s nearly impossible to level the playing field on those bikes so
when they send out the survey I’m going to suggest that they just let people
set their own resistance next year and trust they’ll put on enough so they don’t
blow out their knees.

I thought the five minute transitions would be ridiculously
long but they went by way too quick!

So, the blow by blow (as best as I can remember several days
later).

SWIM

I got to the pool and drew the short straw on the swim, I
was smack in the middle of the pool. But all was good. I managed one warmup lap
– I would have liked more but what can you do – and was off for 15 minutes.

The water was ungodly warm. It felt great at first but after
the first few laps I wished it was cooler. I think it was the water temps, the
DFC pool is colder, but I was struggling with my breathing.

I didn't think I was doing so well. I felt slow and
sluggish, felt like I was taking too long in between laps. My shoulders were
killing me and I was already out of breath. Then with 6ish minutes left the guy
tells me I had 8 laps down. More than I thought, I wasn't counting. I picked it
up and ended up with 12.5. Way better than I thought.

Then silly me forgot a towel. I threw on my bike shorts over
my wet bathing suit and rushed to the spin room, almost getting lost in the
locker room on the way.

BIKE

I had chatted it up with a woman who turned out to be a spin
instructor, and she directed me to her section of bikes. This turned out to be
a mistake.

I started pedaling, and had trouble accelerating. The
resistance was way up. The people next to me were flying. Discouraging, but I
kept going.

The guy managing the spin room was great. Very encouraging
and helped pass the time. I pushed hard, and ended up with 4.5 miles.

He pushed us through the last three minutes, and I pushed
hard, I was on the brink of 4.5 miles and wanted to get there. I picked it up
as much as I could and got there. I felt dizzy as I got up. No time for that,
time to run!

RUN

I got up to the track and had 2 minutes to sit down. I
bought a super-cute running skirt in a black Friday sale, I put that on with a
pink tank, pink calf sleeves and my running shoes, and barely made it to the
track before the whistle.

This was my strong suit, but I was exhausted. Legs felt like
jello the first few minutes, but slowly I found my legs.

I felt like I was slowly getting faster and by the end I was
kicking it, despite feeling cramped up and dizzy.